The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral
home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of
separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own
personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of
his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife's
increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an
uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the
community's culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a
Korean businessman nicknamed the Emperor of the Supermarkets. Both
brothers live in the shadow of the mysteries surrounding the
untimely deaths of their older brother and younger sister, as well
as their great-grandfather's political heroism. When long-kept
family secrets are revealed, the brothers' strained bond is pushed
to its breaking-point and their lives are irrevocably changed.
Considered Oe's most essential work by the Nobel Prize committee,
The Silent Cry is as powerfully relevant today as it was when first
published in 1967.
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